telephone number notation [was: Cellphone]

Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:44:04 -0600

Rohit Khare wrote:
>
> And second, I think it's the
> windows dialer at fault, not the notation according to the late, great
> NeXTWORLD Magazine Style Guide :-)

I don't claim the windows dialer is right; I just request that,
for my personal convenience, you change the way you write
phone numbers. I suggest the international convention[1,2]

telephone:+1-714-824-3100

[1] [E.123] ITU-T Recommendation E.123: Telephone Network and ISDN
Operation, Numbering, Routing and Mobile Service: Notation for
National and International Telephone Numbers. 1993.

[2]
http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-drafts/files/draft-antti-telephony-url-03.txt

cited from
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes

Hmmm... contrast with

http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#relative

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Dan Connolly, W3C Architecture Domain Lead
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